450 Quotes by Tom Waits

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.

When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

There ain't no such thing as the devil that's just god when he's drunk.

You got to tell me brave captain, why are the wicked so strong, how do the angels get to sleep, when the devil leaves the porchlight on.

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlightA sly grin and a bowl full of stars

New York, of course, is to be in endless surreal situations where a fifty-thousand dollar, gun-metal Mercedez pulls up into a puddle of blood, and out steps a twenty-five karat blonde transvestite with a two dollar wristwatch.

Let me fall out of the window/With confetti in my hair

I danced along a colored wind/Dangled from a rope of sand